Consultation on June 1, 2023
Basically I'm here to take stock and adjust the treatment. Next Chapter »
Chemo #4
Routine? Start of the day a little difficult, fatigue accumulates but everything bathes it is beautiful, spring finally arrives, everything seems easier, people are more carefree, A priori it is my fourth and last chemo if everything continues to go for the best. We'll see. I see quite few people in [...]
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Check-up visit, everything's fine
Chemo #3
30/03/2023 Well, today I'm a little worshipper. At first I let myself wake up, like a drool, by an email intended to retrieve a password that I had on the Supreme Court site, so I spent 40 minutes then settling the problem with the host and I had to change my words from [...]
Thursday, March 23
First check-up after 6 weeks of Lever 6:30, cancer or not. Hassan arrives an hour later, punctual and in good mood. Today is a big day of strike, there are people on the N20. In the taxi, I think of my mother, born on March 23, part of [...]
The Cafeteria
A little normality in this world of blouses The hospital is a hostile place, not that one does not welcome you well, that one tortures you there for pleasure, no, the hospital is hostile by nature: it is entirely turned to the care, the comfort of the patient not always being priority. This is not a reproach, [...]
Friday, March 17, 2023
Definitely the days follow each other and do not look alike. Saturday morning, I wake up vaguely around 9:00 a.m., a taste of vomit in the back of my mouth, and the dick that gargoyles. Every hair, and I have a lot, hurts me, I have fever. I stay in bed but I'm cold. Then every yawning makes you tremble [...]
Chemo #2
09/03/03 Since the implantable chamber was installed, this second chemo is easier than the previous one. They start by putting an anesthetic patch on the skin above the bedroom. An hour later, a right-angle syringe with a catheter is planted and the same is done except that it is not in [...]
Chamber installation
The man who was worth a blind For a number of diseases that require recurrent injections of aggressive products like chemos, one should not rest solely on the veins of the arms, too small, too thin, too fragile. If we do, we risk damaging them for a long time. I am therefore proposed to [...]
Chemo #1
Where I take the first shift The protocol foresees four sessions of chemo by intravenous. As I live at fifty points in Cochin, I am brought in on Thursday noon and freed on Friday at the same time, the injection of the products is scheduled on Thursday afternoon. This allows caregivers to get under [...]
The Deal
Doctor's not so good "seller" The peculiarity of Cochin and other CHUs in France is to combine care, research and teaching. As such, they can propose experimental protocols to which "standard" hospitals will only have access once they have been validated. Several people had advised against accepting any unvalidated protocol with, [...]
Team Judge
The time for preliminary examinations is coming to an end, it's Kaiser Poumon's fault, so I'm going to be transferred to Cornil-Brissaud in the Pneumology Department. First contact. What we imagine I have to admit that medicine never interested me: knowing how it all works is (was?) to me, without interest. Maybe the fingerprint of [...]
EEG
The electricians in a white blouse. Here again, they came together to lean... on my skull this time. I'm entitled to a small net that they attach to my head and that will hold thanks to a fairly powerful elastic that takes the chin and makes back the lower jaw of a good [...]
Biopsy
Don't worry, it's like a dentist. Aaaaaargh!!! Before launching the big bins, the doctors want to be sure who they're dealing with. For this, they ask for biopsy. That means we're going to take a little bit of cancer on the beast. In my case, the problem comes from the [...]
WE at the hospital
Lost In Translation On weekdays, the hosto is a hive or deal hundreds of people. From Friday, around 4pm, everything seems to slow down and then stops around 6pm. Only the essentials that allow the engine to run at low speed remain. During the next 48 hours, the weather seems to be frozen. After a crazy week where [...]
